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No. 74,562. PATENTED FEB. 18, 1868.

L. P. McGARTY. NEWSPAPER FILE.

W L W LOUIS P. McCARTY, OF SAN. FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

Letters Patent No. 74,562, dated February 18, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN NEWSPAPEE FILBS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY concerns:

:Be it known that I, LOUIS PLMcOAn'rY, of San Francisco, county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented en ImprovedNewspaper-File; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are snflicient to enable. any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly a-ppertains to makcand usc my said invention or improvement without further-invention or experiment.

The object of my invention is to so construct a. file for preservingnewspapers in their chronological order that it will be cheap, durable, and readily managed, and not subject to be easily broken or thrown out of order. This is cfi'octed by bending a wire upon itself, so as to form two parallel sides, between which thepapcrs are laid and secured, having a clasp at one end, while the other is coiled so as to form a spring for opening it.

To more fully illustrate and describe my invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, of which- I Figure 1 is a. view of the file wi h the lever open, ready to receive the papers.

Figure 2 iso view of the file closed.

A is a piece of wire, of any desired size, having a loop or ring, 13, formed at one end, coils G in the centre, and a lever, D, having a. hook or clasp, d, at its end. The lever is so arranged thntits centre will press closely upon the wire, A, while near the coils there is o. considerahle'distnnce,'which gradually lessons toward the centre until it touches the wire, A, in order that when a nnmher of papers are on the file the'pressure will be evenly distributed the whole length of the papers, and notcn the ends, (as it would otherwise,) thus accommodating itself to a large number of papers. When the papers are on the file, the lever D is thrown down and the hook :Z clasped around the wire, thus bindingthe papers between the twoparallel wires and holding them firmly to their place. The coils 9 act as a spring to throw open the lever when once the hook isnnclasped, when it is desired to remove or make addition to the file. I

By this means .a file maybe made that will be cheap, durable, and easily managed, and the-necessity of punching holes through the papers to secure them, as in the ordinary file, is avoided, as the wires will hold them siifficicntly firm; also, it obviates the loss of time necessary to fit the papers to pins, and screw and unscrew the niovnble part of the ordinary file.

i For ready reference, a hook may he placed in the wall above the desk, and the ring of the file plnced'o'ver it, while a pieccfof elastic cord may be fastened to the desk, and hooked into the coils, thus extending the file at an incline in front of the person at the desk, when the whole file may he rcadily'run over-withouttronble or delay.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A newspaper-file, constructed substantially as and for the purpose herein described. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my ha nd and seal.

' Witnesses:

0. W. M. SMI'EH, J. L. Boon'n.

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